Pilar Rahola, the fake doctor who hates populism …

"It seems terrible to use the Book Fair, with the international fame it has, to campaign, it is harmful, it will even prohibit entry to people who want to enter a football stadium, not a temple of knowledge, it is necessary to preserve the culture, it is the last piece which remains to us, the one where we are not stained. "The Spanish Pilar Rahola then expressed her dissatisfaction with the participation of Cristina Kirchner at the fair of the book, where his book Sincerely beats sales records. Rahola made his comments against the political use of the Fair, not in a TV show or in a political forum … but in the Fair itself.

Author of books like The Islamic Republic of Iran, In favor of Israel and Disrupted: Discussions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflictRahola had college degrees for years that he had never had. For more than a decade, she has been featured as "Doctor of Hispanic Philology and also in Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona". So he said that he had two doctorates. At least that's what he said on his website in Spanish. But if you saw the same website in Catalan, it was not a doctor, but a graduate, as noted a Twitter user in 2014.

Accustomed to political programs, criticism of populism at all costs, fierce defender of the state of Israel, Rahola is the author of several books and was a member of the Spanish Parliament from 1993 to 2000. D & ## First by Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, then by the Party for Independence. She has also been deputy mayor of Barcelona. Closer in time, he was a member of the National Transition Advisory Council, a political body aimed at managing the independence of Catalonia. In other words, a critique of populism has represented the Catalan independence movement, imbued with a characteristic nationalism of populism that it hates.

Rahola actually stated that she had a degree in philology and that the doctorate had been awarded by the University of Chile. But it was not like that. The doctorate for his defense of freedom is actually UNIACC, a small private institution that the National Commission of Accreditation of Chile does not recognize to issue degrees.

For years, she was presented as a Ph.D. in philology and never corrected the mistake. He even appeared in English in his book "PhD in Spanish and Catalan Philology". And she ended up being named "PhD in Philosophy" [sic] Hispanic and Catalan. "What was the explanation that he gave?" She is very South American, says one doctor for everything, "she justifies herself on her permanent mentions as a doctor .

At the time, Rahola had stated, regarding the change of his website in Catalan, that "my secretary should have seen him, asked for his removal and not have seen English or French. had not heard of either one or the other. "